In a message dated 2/7/2005 10:42:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
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<< The Library of Congress had some problems w/ photographs of slave
 plantations about a decade ago.  Also some with an exhibit on Freud,
 although I can't remember why. >>

All I really know about these exhibitions was what I read in the newspapers 
at the time.  I saved the clippings, but darned if I can find them now.  To the 
best of my recollection, African American employees of the Library objected 
to the first show because the subject was painful for them and they demanded 
that it be removed (they succeeded).  In the second case, some people (probably 
academics, although I don't recall the details) objected to the Freud show 
simply on the grounds that Freud's theories are in disrepute and it was felt that 
the mere act of doing an exhibition on one of the most influential figures of 
the 20th century would be interpreted as an endorsement.  The Library's 
capitulation to the forces of censorship was most unfortunate and wimpy, in my 
opinion.

David Haberstich

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